Simten Co?ar, received her Ph.D in political science from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (1998). She has been specialized in political thought. Dr. Co?ar has published in English and Turkish on Turkish politics, feminist politics, and political thought. She was a Fulbright scholar at the Northern Michigan University, in a collaborative academic research with the late Professor Louise Bourgault. In the English-speaking and reading world, she is the co-editor of Universities in the Neoliberal Era: Academic Cultures and Critical Perspectives (UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) (with Hakan Ergül), and Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Islamist Politics and the AKP Years in Turkey (Canada: Red Quill Books, 2012) (with Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir). Her articles in English were published in Contemporary Politics, Monthly Review, Feminist Review, Journal of Third World Studies, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, South European Society and Politics, Alternate Routes and Journal of Political Ideologies. She has been conducting research on the feminist encounters in the neoliberal academia. Dr. Co?ar has also involved in translation works of prominent academic texts in social sciences from Turkish to English, and from English to Turkish. Dr. Co?ar conducted field research on feminist interventions in and through neoliberal academia as a visiting scholar at Umass, Amherst and Carleton University, Ottawa (ON, Canada) in 2016. In Fall 2017 she taught two graduate courses at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University. During her stay as a Visiting Scholar at CIES Dr. Co?ar will work on feminist methodologies as part of her field research. Through the early 2000s, Dr. Co?ar has been briefly involved in feminist organizations as an academic, participating in training courses, acting as executive committee member, and/or member in board of advisors. She defines herself as a feminist political scientist.

Political Science

Gender/Women's Studies

Theory

Turkish Studies

Mediterranean Countries

Turkey

Construction Of Gender Typologies

Hist Of Pol Thought

Turkish Pol

Turkish (native)

English (advanced)

Spanish (elementary)